What are French taxes for?
Stanislas Guerini, Minister of Transformation and the Public Service, and Gabriel Attal, Minister of Public Accounts, at the “Have it for my taxes” stand, at the public finance center, Tuesday, in Lunel (Hérault). PASCAL GUYOT/AFP
REPORT – In Hérault, Gabriel Attal and Stanislas Guerini have launched a consultation with taxpayers.
In the Hérault
It’s a fact: the French have the impression that they pay too much tax, and that the public services are, however, not up to standard. To combat this lingering sentiment, the government is launching the “Get it for my taxes” campaign. This operation orchestrated by Bercy will see an online information platform and the setting up of consultation on the internet and in the field. To launch it, Budget Minister Gabriel Attalmade the trip to the Hérault with his counterpart in the Civil Service, Stanislas Guerini.
After visiting a tax center and a France services house, the two ministers went to a consultation meeting with “taxpayers who wish to participate“. After being welcomed by about thirty demonstrators equipped with noisy saucepans, Gabriel Attal answered questions and anxieties, among which “the complexity of taxation”, “tax inequality” And “the lack…